What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we are exactly two weeks away from Media Day as we record this. Can you believe that? And last week, last Friday, we were supposed to record a pod

and we had some technical difficulties that prevented us from doing so. So apologies for not

having a pot out. But it was kind of odd technical difficulties that we had and we determined after

trying to troubleshoot it a couple of different ways like, this is the basketball gods trying

to tell us to not record this one. And the premise of the pod was going to be pick your 10, right?

Pick the 10 guys that you think are going to be in the rotation. Now, this is with the backdrop of,

Mike, you know how you always are really excited for the schedule release?

And that's one of the markers of the offseason. For me, the first, like, rumors of the starting lineup from credible people,

once those start coming out, that's kind of my, I have that same investment in that

period of time.

And so that usually happens way earlier in the off season because usually your off season is done by

this point. But with the Rust situation in particular, I've always tell myself, like, I'm not going to

try to analyze what the overall team is too much until the overall team is set. And usually that

rule works for me in early July when they're signing like vet men guys, right?

But in a couple of days, you pretty much know what the team's going to be and you can geek out over it over the summer.

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